Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-24
WAsHINGroN NOTES

SURGEoN-GENERAL HAMILToN's report
has been presented to the Secretary OF the
Treasury. In speaking of the yellow
fever outbreak, Dr. Hamilton expresses
regret that Congress failed to provide for
quarantine station at Key West, Fla.
JONES & Co., pool sellers of Washington,
cla1m.to have been robbed of s., 900 by S. j.
FredenhciEcer, a clerk, who made out
tickets for customers and pocketed the
money.
WHAT is known as the drive we'll patent,
which has been several times before the
United States Supreme Court and which
had always heretofore been sustained, has
been declared invalid in an opinion by JUS
tice Blachford. The court holds that the
fact, now made to appear for the first time
in the drive well litigation, that the inven-
ton was used in public at Cortandt, N Y,
by others than Green, more than two
years before application for patent was
made, is fatal to the patents validity.
THE work of the Board OF Pension APP
peals is practically up to date, for the first
time in the history of the board. The extra
force has bean relieved from further duty.
HOPKINS, the reporter who sent the bogus
internal machine to Chief Justice Waite,
has been released.
LAND COMMISSIONERS SPARKS sent his
resignation to the President on the 18th in
a lengthy communication in which he dis
claimed any intention of offending Secre-
tary Lamar and acted solely in the interests
Of the pu bile.
G. r. WELDON, clerk Of the Cheyenne
river agency. telegraphs the Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs that an incendiary fire
there had destroyed one dwelling, two
barns, the corral, eight horses, a quantity
of implements and stores.
SAMUEL M. BURDETT, a prominent Ken
lucky newspaper man, has been appointed
internal revenue agent with headquarters
at Peoria, Ill.
AN official list of the members of the next
House of Representative shows that the
next House will consist of 1853 Democrats,
153 Republicans and four Independents.
The Independents are: Anderson, of Kan
sas; Nichols, of North Carolina; Hopkins,
Of Virginia, and Smith, of Wisconsin.
THE resignation of Land Commissioner
Sparks was accepted by the President on
the 10th. Stockslager, Sparks assistant,
Will be Acting Commissioner until fresh
appointment is made.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has authorized the
treasury accounting officers to audit the
accounts of the Castle Garden Commission
ers, treating as an offset the amounts re-
ceived by the Commissioners from the sale
of privileges. The amounts to be Offset
exceed the amount of the four months &C
counts which have been held up
COMMODORE j. g. WALKER, Chief of the
Bureau OF Navigation, in his annual report
to the Secretary of the Navy, strongly
urges the formation of a naval reserve.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has decided
that female clerks may marry and still re-
tain their positions in the department This
is reversal Of the custom which has pre-
vailed in most of the departments for some
years.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has been
advised that Louis F. Haas was convicted
in the United States Court at Auburn, N.
Y, of forgery committed by him in con
nection with the pension claim of Emma J.
Washington. He was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. Haas was no
tary public.